Plastic production wreaks havoc on people and the planet--from fracking wells and pipelines in Pennsylvania, to air pollution from plastic plants in Scotland. Have you ever heard of the Ineos corporation?

Technology companies including Alphabet Inc (Google) and Facebook Inc on Thursday threw their weight behind a congressional bid to reverse the Trump administration's plan to repeal Obama-era rules designed to protect an open internet.

Trump for America, a nonprofit that raised millions of private dollars for Trump's presidential transition expenses, still hasn't provided more than vague outlines of its spending and won't say what its plans are for nearly $2 million in leftover cash.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell joined his wife, Elaine Chao, now the U.S. secretary of transportation, at a ceremony on the Harvard Business School campus to dedicate a new building emblazoned with the Chao family name.

A problem that started during construction of the Keystone pipeline almost 10 years ago may have led to the leak of 210,000 gallons of crude oil in a prairie grass field near the South Dakota-North Dakota border in November.

In the coming weeks, Riyadh is due to have talks with the United States on nuclear cooperation, allowing U.S. firms to bid on a multi-billion-dollar contract to build the Gulf kingdom's first two nuclear reactors.